Word: naming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Applicants send answers to questions about themselves to Adams and Schieck who review the information and recommend suitable matches. The applicant reads the recommended date's application and if they agree to meet, each person pays $10 for the other's name, address and phone number...
President W. Paul Tippett Jr. of American Motors Corp. used to joke that his company actually had a three-word name: "Ailing American Motors." Now Tippett and his colleagues are laughing for a different reason. AMC has pulled back from the brink yet again, chiefly by cutting its work force, consolidating its plants and concentrating on a few small cars and specialized vehicles...
...putting a Concord compact body on a four-wheel Jeep-like drive train, the company has produced a new car that gets about 16 m.p.g. and sells for some $7,000. Name: the Eagle. It rides easily, stops quickly on icy roads, and is designed for doctors, firemen, people who drive snowplows and others in rough climes. AMC planned to build 50,000 in this model year, but reception has been so strong that there is talk of aiming toward...
...Cardinals filed out of a modernistic hall at the Vatican last week, there stood Pope John Paul II, shaking hands, remembering everybody's name, offering a joke or a reminiscence to each prince of the church assembled. It was a disarmingly informal moment in a formal historic event. For the first time in four centuries the Sacred College of Cardinals had been specially summoned to discuss church affairs...
...government. Then, in 1588, Pope Sixtus V, to increase his personal power and cope with a growing work load, established the various departments of the Vatican Curia. Meetings of all the Cardinals soon died out-except for papal elections and ceremonial occasions, known as "consistories," to install Cardinals and name new saints...